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breathe

andas

Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

breathe

1. v. (top, en, Bodily functions) (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

2. v. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.

Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.

3. v. To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.

While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.

4. v. (intransitive, figurative) To live.

I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.

5. v. To draw something into the lungs.

Try not to breathe too much smoke.

6. v. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.

If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.

7. v. To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.

The flowers breathed a heady perfume.

8. v. To give an impression of, to exude.

The decor positively breathes classical elegance.

9. v. To whisper quietly.

He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.

10. v. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.

The wind breathes through the trees.

11. v. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.

Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.

12. v. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.

13. v. To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.

At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.

14. v. (transitive, figurative) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).

Do you like hiking?　Are you kidding? I breathe hiking.

Svenska > Engelsk

andas

1. n. indefinite genitive of anda

2. v. (deponent) to breathe; to repeatedly draw air into, and expel it from, the lungs

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Exempelmeningar

I don't want to breathe!
A fierceness you claim didn't let you breathe.
I breathe the pungent air of the fifth world, once again.
You have sustenance from your apples and pears and most of all your cigarettes, which you breathe as though they offered you life itself.
A squid could indeed lose its gills and breathe air.

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